Clariion calls for new EMC hardware

By Paul Montgomery

EMC has released the next in its CX family of networked storage devices under the five-year-old Clariion brand, featuring 2Gbps throughput.

The CX400 includes 680 megabytes per second of cached bandwidth, which the company claimed represented a 20 per cent better ratio of price to bandwidth than its competitors. The device is a cut-down version of the previously released CX600, including the same bundled software applications in the form of Navisphere, SnapView, MirrorView and Access Logix. The major difference is a slower processor, although users can simply replace the chip with one from a CX600 on the fly, said EMC.

The company also said it had upgraded its SnapView with a feature called Business Continuance Volumes, which "provide a local full-image copy of a data volume". The volume thus created can be treated as fully independent by the user, according to EMC.

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